Advanced Application Engineer Specialist

Job Description:

Job Title

Advanced Application Engineer Specialist

Collaborate with Innovative 3Mers Around the World

Choosing where to start and grow your career has a major impact on your professional and personal life, so it’s equally important you know that the company that you choose to work at, and its leaders, will support and guide you. With a diversity of people, global locations, technologies and products, 3M is a place where you can collaborate with other curious, creative 3Mers.

This position provides an opportunity to transition from other private, public, government or military experience to a 3M career.

The Impact You’ll Make in this Role

Leads efforts to drive growth through customer collaboration, new application development, and new product commercialization. Leverages 3M to drive higher impact Customer Inspired Innovation (CII) programs through increased market specialization that complement product expertise. Builds compelling value propositions for effective commercialization. Provides increased coordination of field trials with lead customers or evaluating local competition and marketing practices. Replicates and develops high impact product/market applications with a focus on new application development and efficient replication leveraging e-tools. Uses expertise and credibility to shape industry standards, practices, and regulations; harnesses insights from market and customer process expertise. Delivers customer and market focused training through e-media.

As an Application Engineering Specialist, you will have the opportunity to tap into your curiosity and collaborate with some of the most innovative and diverse people around the world. Here, you will make an impact by:

•        Leading efforts to drive growth through customer collaboration, new application development, and new product commercialization. Working with global teams to implement impactful solutions in 3M’s diverse markets

•        Utilizing and advancing knowledge of technical, product, market and competitive information.

•        Working collaboratively and engaging your internal and external network of resources to advance technical platforms

•        Applying advanced technical skills to support external customers while also creating new commercial positions through activities in one or more of the following areas: a) broadening an application base; b) developing a fundamental understanding of the application base; c) identifying product modifications or technical changes to enable product sales in new applications and demonstrating feasibility; (d) taking the initiative to develop new applications and (e) providing significant support on products and their applications to customers to expand opportunities and reduce risks.

Your Skills and Expertise 

To set you up for success in this role from day one, 3M requires (at a minimum) the following qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Chemistry, Engineering, Material Science or related field (completed and verified prior to start) from an accredited institution.
• Five (5) years of product or application development experience within a semiconductor field, in a private, public, government or military environment. 

Additional qualifications that could help you succeed even further in this role include:

• PhD Technical expertise in formulation for film coating, wet desmear processes for IC packaging, device engineering, and analytical characterization techniques of polymers including rheology
• Proven leader with ability to communicate clearly across functions, including lab, manufacturing, and business teams
• Experience in product and application development including phase-gate commercialization processes
• Experience leading collaborative interactions with customers to successful commercialization of new products
• Skills include excellent written and verbal communication, networking, interpersonal and leadership skills 

Work location:

• Hybrid Eligible (Job Duties allow for some remote work but require travel to Maplewood at least 3-4 days per week)

Travel: May include up to 20% domestic/international travel

Relocation Assistance: Is not authorized

Must be legally authorized to work in country of employment without sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H1B status).

Supporting Your Well-being 

3M offers many programs to help you live your best life – both physically and financially. To ens